On 19.12.2018 a new ISO with systemd has been created to investigate moving to it in the future, proceed with caution. inspired by LFS & BLFS; its "cards" pkg mgr can install individual or grouped binary packages, and can compile source pkgs from "ports"

Linux from scratch

Linux from ScratchDW is not a distribution, it is a book instructing how to build your own Linux system from source.
LFS can be used with SysV. i386, x86_64; (also CLFS, aka Cross LFS supports additional architectures: mips, powerpc, ppc64, alpha, sparc, hppa, arm)
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Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS) is a project that continues where the LFS book finishes.
It assists users in developing their systems according to their needs by providing a broad range of instructions for installing and configuring various packages on top of a base LFS system.